President Obama cracks wise at ‘nerd prom’

He’ll be here all week, folks. And for another 140 of them after that.

President Barack Obama took on the role of Funnyman-In-Chief Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner, or so-called “nerd prom,” reprising his Between Two Ferns schtick by delivering his address to the crowd…well, between two ferns.

Obama took the opportunity to make light of the challenged rollout of his healthcare website:

“That could have gone better. In 2008 my slogan was, ‘Yes We Can.’ In 2013 my slogan was, ‘Control-Alt-Delete.’ On the plus side, they did turn the launch of healthcare.gov into one of the year’s biggest movies. [cut away to the logo of Disney's animated hit "Frozen"]

In addition to taking potshots at himself, Obama delivered a joke at the expense of CNN’s marathon coverage of the still-missing Malaysia Airlines flight:

I am happy to be here, even though I am a little jet-lagged from my trip to Malaysia. The lengths we have to go to get CNN coverage these days. I think they’re still searching for their table.

Also, MSNBC didn’t escape a barb:

MSNBC is here. They’re a little overwhelmed. They’ve never seen an audience this big before.

And, of course, Fox News wasn’t overlooked:

And speaking of conservative heroes, the Koch brothers bought a table here tonight. But as usual, they used a shadowy right-wing organization as a front. Hello, Fox News. I’m just kidding. Let’s face it, Fox, you’ll miss me when I’m gone. It will be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya.

The President also used the night to poke fun of House Speaker John Boehner’s tan:

And I’m feeling sorry — believe it or not — for the Speaker of the House, as well. These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me, which means orange really is the new black.

And to comment on his own declining poll numbers:

Folks are saying that with my sagging poll numbers, my fellow Democrats don’t really want me campaigning with them. And I don’t think that’s true — although I did notice the other day that Sasha needed a speaker at career day, and she invited Bill Clinton.

Fictional and non-fictional vice presidents even got in on the act. Joe Biden and Julia Louis-Dreyfus snuck into the White House for some ice cream only to get chastised by First Lady Michelle Obama, and got tattoos with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi:

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